Iowa State scientists have developed a working battery that dissolves and disperses in water. Scientific illustration by Ashley Christopherson.

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Research Spotlight

For emergency responders and traffic operators, safety on highways has long been a struggle to reduce response times to accidents while keeping roadway congestion to a minimum. For researcher Anuj Sharma, there’s subtler factors to be taken into account. One of those factors? It’s a syndrome called cognitive bottleneck.Read the full story